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Shortleaf pine forests (Pinus echinata) are used for multiple purposes. This paper discusses the effects that timber management, livestock grazing, and recreational uses of the shortleaf forest may have on its wildlife resources.

This new version of the Red Pine Managers Guide gathers up-to-date information from many disciplines to address a wide range of red pine management issues. It provides guidance on managing red pine on extended rotations with a focus on landscape-scale objectives along with the traditional forest management tools focusing on production silviculture. The insect and...

Shortleaf pine (Pinus echinata Mill.) is found throughout the South and is the second most important southern pine. The area of shortleaf stands has been declining in recent decades and shortleaf pine growing-stock volume decreases are expected in the near future. Shortleaf's decline is the result of management preferences for other pine species and reductions in...

Littleleaf disease is the most significant disease of shortleaf pine and has decimated shortleaf pineÂ forests in the Piedmont region of the Southeast. This study used the littleleaf disease hazard soil rating methodÂ to evaluate the littleleaf hazard of Piedmont sites owned by Auburn University in the Auburn, Alabama area.Â The results indicate that a few of these stands...

Serious damage to forest sites during logging can be avoided through careful planning of logging, preparation of the site for logging, and close supervision of the work.Losses in productivity caused by compaction can be largely restored by cultivation and fertilization.

The nutrient cycle, which includes the input of nutrients to the site, their losses, and their movement from one soil or vegetation component to another, can be modified by site preparation, rotation length, harvest system, fertilization, and fire, and by using soil-improving plants. Included is a report on how alternative procedures affect site nutrients, and provides...

Growth rates in loblolly pine (Pinus taeda L.) stands can often be increased markedly by applying phosphorus, nitrogen, or nitrogen and phosphorus fertilizers. On phosphorus-deficient Lowe Coastal Plain sites, the growth improvement from phosphorus fertilization of loblolly pine often amounts to an increase in site index (age 25) of 15 feet.Nitrogen and nitrogen plus...

During the latter part of the 19th century, European descendents migrated to the Ozarks seeking employment with large pine-producing sawmills. Within a 30-year period, most of the pine resources across six million acres had been exploited and were largely replaced by oak-hickory forests. The era ended with residents struggling with economic challenges and limited...

Early in 1979, the School of Agriculture and Land Resources Management of the University of Alaska surveyed forest managers in a number of northern countries to identify topics of circumpolar interest in forest management. Responses most frequently centered on problems of forest regeneration. As a result we initiated what was to be a series of international workshops...

The purposes of this bibliography are to enumerate and describe publications that have a bearing on the growing of sugar pine for timber production. It is intended primarily for the information of forest managers, and it includes mainly those articles which appeared to pertain rather directly to management. Although a careful search was made for titles, no claim is...

(Please note, this is an abstract only) Pinyon-Juniper (PJ) woodland is the 3rd largest vegetation type in the United States, covering 35.5% of the Colorado Plateau, it is the largest vegetation type administered by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) on the Colorado Plateau. These woodlands have been increasing dramatically in density and extent over the last 100...

The increasing use of intensive plantation management in the South has led to inferences that natural pine stands are unacceptably inferior in terms of fiber production, rotation length, wood quality, and regeneration. In this paper, we have compiled information from studies of different silvicultural practices in southern pine stands of natural origin to provide a...

Research on managing red pine has been ongoing for some time and management guides that incorporate information resulting from this research such as Buckman's (1962) Growth and Yield of Red Pine in Minnesota and Benzie's (1977) Manager's Handbook for Red Pine have been widely applied. Despite this extensive knowledge...

Hybridization between shortleaf pine and loblolly pine is causing loss of genetic integrity (the tendency of a population to maintain its genotypes over generations) in shortleaf pine, a species already exhibiting dramatic declines due to land-use changes. Recent findings indicate hybridization has increased in shortleaf pine stands from 3% during the 1950s to 45% for...